Update, 6/5: Found out how Wallach allegedly got hold of the stolen car.Original post, 6/4:The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Michael Wallach is expected to be released from the hospital “today or tomorrow” to face charges that he shot at police, stole a car, then ran from authorities…
Here’s a conundrum. Last week, via the environmentalist group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, we got wind of some notes from a meeting of state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) officials last year that showed some unorthodox — some might say laughable — ideas. Our brief blog item on the…
It looks to be a coincidence that the Tampa Bay Times published an analysis of Florida stand-your-ground cases on the same day George “Fib About PayPal” Zimmerman got tossed back in the clink, but it would have been a good read either way.A poll last week showed that only 35…
Update, again: T’s Lounge has threatened to sue Suleman if she doesn’t show.Update: She’s reportedly changed her mind. Go figure.Last time we heard about government-mooching fetus factory Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, she was a contender in a rumored celebrity boxing match in Fort Lauderdale that, like every other rumored celebrity boxing match…
Back in 2005, Ozzie DeFaria was ordered by a judge to stay away from both his ex-wife and her new boyfriend.Now, both of them are endorsing him for Congress.It’s just one detail of a knotted public relations quagmire that came to the surface last week, when shark-tank.net political blogger Javier Manjarres…
George Zimmerman has 48 hours to turn himself in to authorities after his bond was revoked at a hearing this afternoon in which prosecutors accused both Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the court about the $200,000 in donations they collected from a personal website in the days leading…
Hollywood City Manager Doug Hewett was arrested on DUI charges after a police officer reported Hewett was swerving on the way home from a male strip club on Easter Sunday. A meeting this morning was held to figure out what was going to happen to him after Mayor Peter Bober called for…
Boynton Beach Police are investigating the origins of a giant brick of marijuana that was fished out of the Atlantic earlier this week and is large enough to keep Frito-Lay in business for the next decade.Covered in barnacles and weighing in at around 40 pounds, the bale of ganja looks…
Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign to purge “noncitizens” from the voter rolls less than three months before a primary election violates federal law, according to the Department of Justice.In a letter sent yesterday to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, the chief of the DOJ’s voting section gave Detzner six days…
Three members of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department turned themselves in yesterday after being cumulatively accused of more than a dozen felonies related to the 2009 arrest of Kenneth Post.Sgt. Michael Florenco, Det. Matthew Moceri, and Officer Geoffrey Shaffer, who have a combined 24 years of service in Fort Lauderdale,…
If you woke in the wee hours of Friday morning and saw a low-flying, two-engine plane blanketing the sky with an ominous mist, don’t worry. Skeeter season is upon us, and that was just Broward County Mosquito Control doing its job. While the fancy folks down in Key West are kicking around the idea…
Everyone in the country has heard about the case of Rudy Eugene, the Miami man who was killed by police as he, without any clothes on, ate a homeless man’s face under a bridge. But it wasn’t the only case of cannibalism this week.Maryland 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua was denied bail…
(Running updates whenever we add another article about the case)Tonight at 8, the Nancy Grace Show on HLN will feature the murder of Juliana Mench, the 19-year-old found strangled in a room in Fort Lauderdale in March. Barring some kind of creative editing, a certain Pulp blogger wearing a charming…
The ruling is in — old people smell different, and a study released today reveals that people can identify the smell even when there isn’t an actual old person around.A study from Philadelphia researchers called “The Smell of Age: Perception and Discrimination of Body Odors of Different Ages” dealt with…
MSNBC host Chris Hayes did something dangerous last weekend — he tried to think. And Congressman Allen West isn’t happy about it.In a weekend in which cable news channels filled hours of time with teary-eyed flag-waving, Hayes wanted to have a discussion about the word hero.”It is very difficult to…
Rudy Eugene was shot by police Saturday afternoon as he ate Ronald Poppo’s face near the Miami Herald building. The Herald had the story on Sunday, along with a photo of Eugene, dead on the sidewalk. Tuesday, the Pulp had two other photographs and the story that the Herald photo…
Hello. You pay taxes in Florida, and have a stake in state-owned lands and public parks. So naturally, you want the state to save money on those lands, and would be supportive of such enterprising ideas as building a privately run wood-pellet mill on public land that will sell product…
The state Department of Juvenile Justice does not have a stellar track record of competency or efficiency. When a prison guard was twice accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy at a Pembroke Pines juvie lockup, DJJ didn’t hear about the incidents until months after they allegedly occurred. Next, supervisors…
South Florida is a grifter’s paradise. And the latest con to emerge in this skeezy swampland is as brazen as it is complex: staging car accidents. Earlier this week, the FBI announced that at least ten people have been sentenced in a West Palm Beach court for their role in the scheme. Oscar…
It’s a pristine spring morning on the remote tip of Big Pine Key, 30 miles north of Key West. The lone paved road is surrounded by dense brush and wetlands that give way to the Gulf of Mexico. On this particular Tuesday, though, the usually silent landscape is dominated by…
Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man’s haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed at his classmate’s new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the…
It worked just like comedian Mitch Hedberg said it did — “I like the FedEx guy, ’cause he’s a drug dealer, and he don’t even know it. And he’s always on time.”And now 31-year-old Marco Ceja-Moreno is going to prison.Ceja-Moreno pleaded guilty yesterday to drug distribution charges, according to the…
